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A Weekly Xeivspaper Published by the Students of the University of Missouri.
VOLUME VL COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY n, 1899. NUMBER 12.
CONSTITUTION OF THE DEBATING
LEAGUE.
Preamble.
We, the debating societies, herinafter
named, for the purpose of promoting and
conducting inter-stat- e debates do hereby
organize a league and adopt for our gov-ernment
the following constitution and by
laws.
Article 1. Name. This organization
shall be known as the Debating League
of the Missouri State University.
Article II. Membership. This league
shall be composed of the M. S. U. Debat-ing
Club, New Era Debating Club, Atbae-nea- n
Literary Society, Union Literary
Society and Bliss Lyceum or such of these
as shall subscribe to this constitution.
Article III. Executive Committee.
Section I. Each society shall elect from
its members a comniitteman, who shall
with the committeemen fiom the other
societies constitute an executive committee.
Section II. This committee shall de-termine
its own organization, officers,
quorum and method of carrying out the
provisions of this plan in points not herein
provided for.
Section III. These committeemen shall
be chosen on or before the last Saturday
in September and shall continue in office
for one year or until their successors are
elected. Each society on adopting these
rules shall elect a committeeman to serve
the rest of this year.
Article IV. Section I. Duties of execu-tive
committee. It shall be the duty of
the executive committee to faithfully carry
on and preserve all correspondence of the
league ; to collect and pay out money ; to
make all arrangements for the management
of inter-staf- e debates ; and in general, to
have complete control over the business
affairs of the league.
Section II. This committee shall pro-pose
questions for inter-stat- e debates, or
select from those proposed as may be de-termined
in carrying out the provisions of
the inter-stat- e agreement.
Article V. Section I. Preliminary
Debates. In order to facilitate the selec-tion
of speakers to represent the Univer-sity
in the inter-stat- e debates there shall
be a series of preliminary debates and a
final trial debate.
Section IV. Each society may be re-presented
in the preliminary debates by
not more than three speakers, chosen in
such a way as it may see fit.
Section III. The names of the contes-tants
shall be given to the executive
committee at least one week before the
first preliminary contest.
Section IV. The executive committee
shall decide upon the number of prelimi-nary
contests and assign the debates for
each, provided that each society shall,
when possible, have at least one repre-sentative
on each preliminary debate.
Section V. The committee shall fix the
time and choose the questions for the pre-liminary
contests. The question for the
final trial debate shall be the one selected
for the inter-stat- e debate.
Section VI. The final contest shall be
held not later than six weeks before the
inter-stat- e debate.
Section VII. The sides and order of
the speakers shall be choosen by lot,
forty-eig- ht hours before each contest.
Section VIII. At each debate each
speaker shall have two speeches. He shall
have ten minutes for his first speech and
three minutes for his second in rebuttal.
The first speeches shall be delivered in
the order assigned and the rebuttal shall
follow in the same order.
Section IX. For each debate not other-wise
provided for the committee shall ap-point
a presiding officer who shall act as
time keeper.
Article VI. Section I. Judges. Any
three of the following members of the
faculty shall act as judges to select the
debaters ; heads of departments of Latin,
Mathematics, English, Philosophy, Econ-omics,
History, Archaeology and Law.
Section II. The same set of judges
shall act at all the preliminary contests.
Another set of judges, selected by the first
set from the members of the faculty named
above shall act as judges for the final trial
debate.
Section III. Within 24 hours after the
last preliminary contest the judges shall
report to the committee the names of the
six best men of all the contestants, and
the committee shall announce these names
at once.
Section IV. The judges of the final
trial debate shall announce immediately
after the contest the three speakers who
shall represent the University in the inter-
-state debate.
Article VII. Expenses. No admission
fee shall be charged to any debate, except
the inter-stat- e debate when held at the
University and at the final trial debate
when the inter-stat- e debate is not held at
the University. After all expenses of the
debate have been paid, the surplus, if any
shall be apportioned among the societies
equally, should there be a deficit, it shall
be met equally by the societies.
Article VIII. Amendment. These
rules shall be amended at any time by all
of the societies concuring.
MISSOURIKANSAS DEBATE.
The preliminary contests for the Missou-ri-
Kansas debate will be held February
10 and 11. The final trial debate will be
held February 18. The question for the
debates will be the one selected for the
interstate debate, " Should the United
States adopt the British Colonial policy in
the government of its recent acquisitions. M
In recent acquisitions should be included
Hawaii as well as Porto Rico and the
Phillippines. The names of the contest-ants
must be in the hands of the executive
committee by Feb. 3.
By order of executive committee.
M. S. U. Debating League.
Preparations are being made to have
"A Grand Tacky Ball" about January 30,
for the benefit of the football team. The
money raised is to be paid to the students
and Columbia people who so kindly ob-liged
the football team last fail by loaning
them money when most needed. Music
under the management of Geo. Venable
will be a special feature of the evening.
Refreshments will be served by the young
ladies of the University and Columbia.
President Jesse as been elected president
of the state teachers association for next
year. This is as it should be, the Univ-ersity
at the head of all educational orga-nizations
in the state. Now if we could
only have the association to meet at Co-lumbia.
When we have the new road and
a new hotel this will happen.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
Geo. R. Henderson was initiated by
the Phi Delta Phi Monday night.
We are pleased to note the success of
Hock and Durham in securing a position
in the legislature.
H. M. Dawes, a graduate of the Univer-Ifc- y
visited the Law Department Satuiday,
the guest of Clarence Barnes.
"Missouri Law Relating to Surface
Water," is the subject given by Judge
Yantis for the senior theses.
Capt. English entered school the third
time Tuesday. He will probably be in
school more or less during the second sem-ester.
Judge Lawson is spending a few weeks
in Canada his former home. Judge Martin
meets Lawson's classes during the latter's
absence.
Wallace and Pickell of the Senior class
and Morgan of the Junior compose the
team that will meet the Kansas City Law
School in debate. The debate will ccme
off this month.
The members of last year's class who
are already enjoying political positions
are, J. V. Wilhite, prosecuting attorney,
W. C. Crawford, prosecuting attorney, and
R. H., Davis, representative.
Thi Senior lawyers have organized a
whisker club with Madison Schofield,
president ; Joe Mclntyre, sercetary ; A. J.
Coppedge, sergeant-at-arm- s. The object
is to aid the general appearance of the
class, but the result will be well, see the
'99 Savitar.
FRATERNITIES.
The Betas gave a dance during the
holidays.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma attended the
Columbia Vawdeville in a body Saturday
night.
Major Turner attended the annual
convention of Kappa Sigma at Nashville
during the holidays.
The Sigma Nu Fraternity gave a ban-quet
at the Cottage Hotel last Saturday
evening in honor of Hamilton M. Dawes
of New York City.
BASEBALL.
Of last year's team only four have re-turned,
viz ; Hawkins, Mossman, Cooper
and Atchinson. Still there are quite a
number of prospective men to fill the va-cant
places. We are in need of a pitcher
and would like to see some candidates for
the position. The season will open as soon
as the weather will permit. I shall endea
vor to have about one game each week in
Columbia ; one and probably two games
with other Universities. Lee Utley.
Wanted. Agents for " History of th
Spanish-America- n War" by Hon. Henry
Watterson. A complete authentic history ;
illustrated with over 76 full page half-ton- es
and many richly colored pictures. Large
royal octavo volume, superb outfit postpaid
for only SO cents (stamps taken). Most
liberal terms given. The greatest oppor-tunity
of the year. Address : The Wer-ner
Company, Akron, Ohio. 5w.

A Weekly Xeivspaper Published by the Students of the University of Missouri.
VOLUME VL COLUMBIA, MISSOURI, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY n, 1899. NUMBER 12.
CONSTITUTION OF THE DEBATING
LEAGUE.
Preamble.
We, the debating societies, herinafter
named, for the purpose of promoting and
conducting inter-stat- e debates do hereby
organize a league and adopt for our gov-ernment
the following constitution and by
laws.
Article 1. Name. This organization
shall be known as the Debating League
of the Missouri State University.
Article II. Membership. This league
shall be composed of the M. S. U. Debat-ing
Club, New Era Debating Club, Atbae-nea- n
Literary Society, Union Literary
Society and Bliss Lyceum or such of these
as shall subscribe to this constitution.
Article III. Executive Committee.
Section I. Each society shall elect from
its members a comniitteman, who shall
with the committeemen fiom the other
societies constitute an executive committee.
Section II. This committee shall de-termine
its own organization, officers,
quorum and method of carrying out the
provisions of this plan in points not herein
provided for.
Section III. These committeemen shall
be chosen on or before the last Saturday
in September and shall continue in office
for one year or until their successors are
elected. Each society on adopting these
rules shall elect a committeeman to serve
the rest of this year.
Article IV. Section I. Duties of execu-tive
committee. It shall be the duty of
the executive committee to faithfully carry
on and preserve all correspondence of the
league ; to collect and pay out money ; to
make all arrangements for the management
of inter-staf- e debates ; and in general, to
have complete control over the business
affairs of the league.
Section II. This committee shall pro-pose
questions for inter-stat- e debates, or
select from those proposed as may be de-termined
in carrying out the provisions of
the inter-stat- e agreement.
Article V. Section I. Preliminary
Debates. In order to facilitate the selec-tion
of speakers to represent the Univer-sity
in the inter-stat- e debates there shall
be a series of preliminary debates and a
final trial debate.
Section IV. Each society may be re-presented
in the preliminary debates by
not more than three speakers, chosen in
such a way as it may see fit.
Section III. The names of the contes-tants
shall be given to the executive
committee at least one week before the
first preliminary contest.
Section IV. The executive committee
shall decide upon the number of prelimi-nary
contests and assign the debates for
each, provided that each society shall,
when possible, have at least one repre-sentative
on each preliminary debate.
Section V. The committee shall fix the
time and choose the questions for the pre-liminary
contests. The question for the
final trial debate shall be the one selected
for the inter-stat- e debate.
Section VI. The final contest shall be
held not later than six weeks before the
inter-stat- e debate.
Section VII. The sides and order of
the speakers shall be choosen by lot,
forty-eig- ht hours before each contest.
Section VIII. At each debate each
speaker shall have two speeches. He shall
have ten minutes for his first speech and
three minutes for his second in rebuttal.
The first speeches shall be delivered in
the order assigned and the rebuttal shall
follow in the same order.
Section IX. For each debate not other-wise
provided for the committee shall ap-point
a presiding officer who shall act as
time keeper.
Article VI. Section I. Judges. Any
three of the following members of the
faculty shall act as judges to select the
debaters ; heads of departments of Latin,
Mathematics, English, Philosophy, Econ-omics,
History, Archaeology and Law.
Section II. The same set of judges
shall act at all the preliminary contests.
Another set of judges, selected by the first
set from the members of the faculty named
above shall act as judges for the final trial
debate.
Section III. Within 24 hours after the
last preliminary contest the judges shall
report to the committee the names of the
six best men of all the contestants, and
the committee shall announce these names
at once.
Section IV. The judges of the final
trial debate shall announce immediately
after the contest the three speakers who
shall represent the University in the inter-
-state debate.
Article VII. Expenses. No admission
fee shall be charged to any debate, except
the inter-stat- e debate when held at the
University and at the final trial debate
when the inter-stat- e debate is not held at
the University. After all expenses of the
debate have been paid, the surplus, if any
shall be apportioned among the societies
equally, should there be a deficit, it shall
be met equally by the societies.
Article VIII. Amendment. These
rules shall be amended at any time by all
of the societies concuring.
MISSOURIKANSAS DEBATE.
The preliminary contests for the Missou-ri-
Kansas debate will be held February
10 and 11. The final trial debate will be
held February 18. The question for the
debates will be the one selected for the
interstate debate, " Should the United
States adopt the British Colonial policy in
the government of its recent acquisitions. M
In recent acquisitions should be included
Hawaii as well as Porto Rico and the
Phillippines. The names of the contest-ants
must be in the hands of the executive
committee by Feb. 3.
By order of executive committee.
M. S. U. Debating League.
Preparations are being made to have
"A Grand Tacky Ball" about January 30,
for the benefit of the football team. The
money raised is to be paid to the students
and Columbia people who so kindly ob-liged
the football team last fail by loaning
them money when most needed. Music
under the management of Geo. Venable
will be a special feature of the evening.
Refreshments will be served by the young
ladies of the University and Columbia.
President Jesse as been elected president
of the state teachers association for next
year. This is as it should be, the Univ-ersity
at the head of all educational orga-nizations
in the state. Now if we could
only have the association to meet at Co-lumbia.
When we have the new road and
a new hotel this will happen.
LAW DEPARTMENT.
Geo. R. Henderson was initiated by
the Phi Delta Phi Monday night.
We are pleased to note the success of
Hock and Durham in securing a position
in the legislature.
H. M. Dawes, a graduate of the Univer-Ifc- y
visited the Law Department Satuiday,
the guest of Clarence Barnes.
"Missouri Law Relating to Surface
Water," is the subject given by Judge
Yantis for the senior theses.
Capt. English entered school the third
time Tuesday. He will probably be in
school more or less during the second sem-ester.
Judge Lawson is spending a few weeks
in Canada his former home. Judge Martin
meets Lawson's classes during the latter's
absence.
Wallace and Pickell of the Senior class
and Morgan of the Junior compose the
team that will meet the Kansas City Law
School in debate. The debate will ccme
off this month.
The members of last year's class who
are already enjoying political positions
are, J. V. Wilhite, prosecuting attorney,
W. C. Crawford, prosecuting attorney, and
R. H., Davis, representative.
Thi Senior lawyers have organized a
whisker club with Madison Schofield,
president ; Joe Mclntyre, sercetary ; A. J.
Coppedge, sergeant-at-arm- s. The object
is to aid the general appearance of the
class, but the result will be well, see the
'99 Savitar.
FRATERNITIES.
The Betas gave a dance during the
holidays.
The Kappa Kappa Gamma attended the
Columbia Vawdeville in a body Saturday
night.
Major Turner attended the annual
convention of Kappa Sigma at Nashville
during the holidays.
The Sigma Nu Fraternity gave a ban-quet
at the Cottage Hotel last Saturday
evening in honor of Hamilton M. Dawes
of New York City.
BASEBALL.
Of last year's team only four have re-turned,
viz ; Hawkins, Mossman, Cooper
and Atchinson. Still there are quite a
number of prospective men to fill the va-cant
places. We are in need of a pitcher
and would like to see some candidates for
the position. The season will open as soon
as the weather will permit. I shall endea
vor to have about one game each week in
Columbia ; one and probably two games
with other Universities. Lee Utley.
Wanted. Agents for " History of th
Spanish-America- n War" by Hon. Henry
Watterson. A complete authentic history ;
illustrated with over 76 full page half-ton- es
and many richly colored pictures. Large
royal octavo volume, superb outfit postpaid
for only SO cents (stamps taken). Most
liberal terms given. The greatest oppor-tunity
of the year. Address : The Wer-ner
Company, Akron, Ohio. 5w.